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- Comment on Water 4 weeks ago:
*OH~2~
- Comment on Anon is in a simulation 4 weeks ago:
Speed of light in glass is about 2/3c. Internet routing does not follow great circle routes either, so add an extra 20% fudge factor for that.
From experience, voice calls sometimes get extra latency added in for no good reason whatsoever. Calling again usually resolves the issue.
So while there’s a bit more delay, despite being noticeable it doesn’t change how you talk on the phone.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 5 weeks ago:
He was the ringleader of an illegal anti-poaching agreement between tech companies that kept worker salaries down.
He’s the root cause of much of what is broken with modern tech hiring. Bill gates is responsible for the other half (trick questions, etc)
- Comment on Fair. 5 weeks ago:
Bottom rack retail workers distributing replica weaponry is hardly a good basis for a system of government
- Comment on Itch drama is getting real 1 month ago:
Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.
ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.
- Comment on Itch drama is getting real 1 month ago:
ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
- Comment on Itch drama is getting real 1 month ago:
Nope. They already have .mu
- Comment on Itch drama is getting real 1 month ago:
Once the treaty is signed, the .io cctld will phase out over 5 years.
Unless ICANN get greedy and grant an exemption.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That guy? He was horrible at AA. Did something to the water cooler and now everyone is falling off the wagon
- Comment on Send...help... 2 months ago:
I mean, it is shit posting
- Comment on Send...help... 2 months ago:
I think we finally figure out how to not poop for three days
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 3 months ago:
Gotcha. So all horses are purple?
- Comment on Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer 4 months ago:
That makes a lot of sense - I wonder if they also do the SIGSEGV trick like HotSpot to know when they need to JIT the next chunk of instructions
- Comment on Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer 4 months ago:
But does it run Doom? Using CMOV instructions only?
- Comment on Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer 4 months ago:
I thought FAT binaries don’t work like that - they included multiple instruction sets with a header pointing to the sections (68k, PPC, and x86)
Rosetta to the best of my understanding did something similar - but relied on some custom microcode support that isn’t rooted in ARM instructions. Do you have a link that explains a bit more in depth on how they did that?
- Comment on Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer 4 months ago:
From what I’ve understood of this - it’s transpiling the x86 code to ARM on the fly. I honestly would have thought it wasn’t possible but hearing that they’re doing it - it will be a monumental effort, but very feasible. The best part is that once they’ve gotten CRT and cdecl instructions working - actual application support won’t be far behind. The biggest challenge will likely be inserting memory barriers correctly - a spinlock implemented in x86 assembly is highly unlikely to work correctly without a lot of effort to recognize and transpile that specific structure as a whole.
- Comment on Excel 4 months ago:
All images are stacked bar charts if you try hard enough
- Comment on Rings 5 months ago:
Does that mean the engagement band is just a semiring?
- Comment on Breast Cancer 5 months ago:
The correct term is “Computational Statistics”
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 7 months ago:
Defederation is a tool of last resort. Before taking that step as a community we should attempt to engage the admins to align them towards more acceptable behavior. Migrating communities away from instances with petty and abusive admins is always a good idea, and this absolutely qualifies.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 7 months ago:
Calling to defederate merely on the basis of political opinion might be premature. However, I suspect defederation will happen for legal reasons: they host users who openly support terrorist organizations designated as such by the EU. LW is subject to Dutch law - hosting such content is more of a gray area than CSAM, but still very much illegal in most countries.
The reason I’m not pushing here with examples is because I have not yet contacted the mods/admins to remove said content. They may have simply not been aware and I’ll give them that chance. But even seeing that content has a chilling effect on users who would contribute - even in unrelated communities.
- Comment on This God-damned duck will not stop following me. 7 months ago:
Well? Do you have any grapes?
- Comment on This God-damned duck will not stop following me. 7 months ago:
Well? Do you have any grapes?
- Comment on LPT Do it. 8 months ago:
.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.
But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.
- Comment on madlad 8 months ago:
Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.
Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.
- Comment on Come ride me. 1 year ago:
You clearly haven’t watched your forklift safety video. Warning: blood starts a few minutes in.